They had 33 No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, stretching from “Tennessee River” in August 1980 to “Old Alabama,” a collab with Brad Paisley, in June 2011. Alabama was ...

The “greatest country band of all ... years for the group that put Fort Payne, Alabama, on the musical map, and it was hard not to marvel that songs about the simple pleasures of a chubby ...